Prof Dr Maria Thurmair

• Studied German language and literature, British studies and German as a foreign language at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
• 1984 Magister Artium in the subjects German as a foreign language, modern german literature, english linguistics at the LMU Munich
• 1987 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in German as a foreign language, German language and literature, english linguistics at the LMU Munich
• 1996 Appointed Professor of German as a Foreign Language and General Foreign Language Didactics at the University of Rostock
• 1998 Appointed Professor of German language and literature/ German as a foreign language at the University of Regensburg

Monographs

• Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2025): German in use: oral - written - medial. Basics and mediation. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.
• DUDEN: Die Grammatik (2022), therein: Gesprochene Sprache, pp. 288-315, 551-559, 886-899; 10th completely revised edition, edited by A. Wöllstein and the Duden editorial team, Berlin: Dudenverlag.
• Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2021): Grammar in German as a foreign and second language. Basics and teaching. 2. newly revised and expanded edition. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.
• Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2018): Grammar in German as a foreign and second language. Basics and teaching. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.
• Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2011): Text types in German: Linguistics analyses from a language didactics perspective. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
• Habermann, M./Diewald, G./Thurmair, M. (2009): Fit für das Bachelorstudium: Grundwissen Grammatik, Duden-Verlag: Mannheim etc.
• Habermann, M./Diewald, G./Thurmair, M. (2015): Grundwissen Grammatik, 2nd revised edition, Duden-Verlag: Mannheim etc.
• Habermann, M./Diewald, G./Thurmair, M. (2019): Basic grammar knowledge, fit for university. 3. revised edition, Duden-Verlag: Mannheim etc.
• Thurmair, M. (2001): Comparisons and comparisons. A study on the form and function of comparative structures in German; Tübingen: Niemeyer (LA 433)
• Thurmair, M. (1989): Modalpartikeln und ihre Kombinationen, Tübingen: Niemeyer (LA 223)

Collaboration on:

• Weinrich, H. (2003): Textgrammatik der deutschen Sprache, 2nd revised edition Hildesheim etc.: Olms Verlag, 3rd rev. ed. 2005, 4th rev. ed. 2007.
• Weinrich, H. (1993): Text grammar of the German language, Mannheim etc.: Duden-Verlag.

Publications

• Grundlagen Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache (series edition) (together with Marina Foschi, Christian Fandrych, Karen Schramm, Erich Schmidt Verlag)
• Studies in German as a Foreign Language (Series Edition) (together with Marina Foschi, Christian Fandrych, Karen Schramm, Erich Schmidt Verlag)
• Fandrych, C./Foschi Albert, M./Hepp, M./Thurmair, M (2021) (eds.): Attribution in Text, Grammar and Language Didactics. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.
• Breindl, E./Thurmair, M. (2008): Insights from the margins. On the interaction of prosody, information structure, syntax and meaning. Contributions dedicated to Hans Altmann on his 65th birthday = Deutsche Sprache 2, 2008.
• Thurmair, M. (2005) (ed.): Sprachansichten. Issue 1, volume 4 of the journal mitte.

• Thurmair, M./Willkop, E.-M. (2003) (eds.): In the beginning was the text. 10 Jahre "Textgrammatik der deutschen Sprache", Munich: iudicium.

  Burnett, P. / Thurmair, M. et al. (2003) (eds.): EmLiT - "European Minority Literatures in Translation"; Brunel University: London.

Essays

• Ender, A./Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2023): Focus on language use. Some recent approaches and fields of research in GFL and GSL. DaF 1/2023, pp. 3-17.
• Thurmair, M. (2022): Grammatical modelling for German as a foreign language using the example of the field model. In: Müller, A./Turgay, K. (eds.): Grammatische Modellierung als Grundlage für sprachdidaktische Vermittlung (Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 31), pp. 59-75.
• Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2021): Compressing, categorising, evaluating: attributes in selected text types of art communication. In: Fandrych, C./Foschi Albert, M./Hepp, M./Thurmair, M. (eds.): Attribution in text, grammar, language didactics. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, pp.17-69.
• Thurmair, M. (2021): Punctuation - (K)ein Thema für Deutsch als Fremdsprache?; in: Rössler, P./Besl, P./Saller, A. (eds.): Vergleichende Interpunktion - comparative Interpunctuation. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, pp. 317-341.
• Thurmair, M./Fandrych, C. (2021): Das Tagebuch aus text(sorten)linguistischer Perspektive; in: Depkat, V./Pyta, W. (eds.): Letters and diaries between text and source. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 31-56.
• Thurmair, M. (2020): On the syntax of halt: a modal particle in the postfield? Linguistics, 45/2, pp. 241-273.
• Thurmair, M. (2020): Proper names in comparisons: from the Angela Merkel of sport to the Mercedes among the German presidents. In: Kempf, Luise / Nübling, Damaris / Schmuck, Mirjam (eds.): Linguistics of proper names. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, pp. 305-329.
• Thim-Mabrey, C. / Thurmair, M. (2020): "There we have it, the nested sentence!" On the verifiability of normative attitudes towards scientific language style. In: Petkova-Kessanlis, M. / Adamzik, K. (eds.): Style changes and their functions in text types of specialised and scientific communication. Tübingen: Narr, pp. 271-302.
• Thurmair, M. (2019): When orality and writing mix... In: Menclová Hana / Voltrová Michaela (eds.): Experimental spaces in German linguistics, University of West Bohemia. Pilsen, pp. 3-20.
• Thurmair, M. (2019): German in the world - German in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: Mešić, Sanela / Scheuringer, Hermann (ed.): German in Bosnia and Herzegovina. University of Sarajevo, pp. 13-29.
• Thurmair, M. (2019): Modal particles in indirect speech. A corpus-based study. Linguistics, 44/1, pp. 1-72.
• Thurmair, M. (2018): Guidebooks: variations of a text type. In: Baumann, Tania (ed.): Reiseführer - Sprach- und Kulturmittlung im Tourismus. Le guide turistiche - mediazione linguistica e culturale in ambito turistico. Bern etc. Peter Lang, pp. 19-42.
• Thurmair, M. (2018): At the interface of DaF and german language and literature. Inventory and perspectives. In: Wöllstein, Angelika / Gallmann, Peter / Habermann, Mechthild / Krifka, Manfred (eds.): Grammar models and empiricism in German language and literature (FS Ludwig M. Eichinger) Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, pp. 409-432.
• Thurmair, M. (2018): Academic communication from the perspective of German as a foreign language: problems of international students with German academic communication. In: Thim-Mabrey, Christiane / Kattenbeck, Markus (eds.): IX Regensburg Symposium 2017; 12, pp. 1-21.
• Thurmair, M. (2018): Connectors and (modal) particles. In: German language 1/2018, pp. 37-51.
• Oppenrieder, W. / Thurmair, M. (2018): The merchant never goes Bayreuth. Prepositionless directionals in Tyrolean. In: Eller-Wildfeuer, N. / Rössler, P. / Wildfeuer, A.: Alpindeutsch. Influence and use of German in the Alpine region. Regensburg: edition vulpes, pp. 165-180.
• Thurmair, M. (2018): Parentheses between orality and literacy using the example of lectures. In: Spitzl-Dupic, Friederike (ed.): Parenthetical insertions. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, pp. 33-48.
• Thurmair, M. (2017): The modal particle halt from a variationist linguistic perspective. In: Lazarescu, Ioan / Sava, Doris (eds.) Constancy and variation. The German language in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. FS for Hermann Scheuringer. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. S. 419-438.
• Thurmair, M. (2017): Modal particles, sentence mode and constructions; in: Bracic, Stojan/Petrovcic, Mateja (eds.): Partikeln überall. German - Slovenian - Chinese, Ljubljana, pp.9-25.
• Thurmair, M. (2016): "Text variety linguistics for the foreign language classroom. In: Tinnefeld, Thomas (ed.): Fremdsprachenvermittlung zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. Saarbrücken, pp. 379-395.
• Thurmair, M. (2016): "Dürfte, könnte ... wöllte, söllte?" On the question of umlaut marking as a mode marker in the discourse of destandardisation. In: Rössler, Paul (ed.): Standardisation processes and variation. Contributions to the convergence of standard language research and variation linguistics. Peter Lang: Frankfurt/M., pp. 115-134.
• Fandrych, C. / Thurmair, M. (2016): Learning grammar on and with text types: the principle of "left-hand determination" in German. In: Freudenberg-Findeisen, Renate (ed.): Towards a didactics of text types. Linguistics analyses and text(type) didactic building blocks not only for foreign language German lessons. Hildesheim: Olms, pp. 185-200.
• Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2016): Audioguides: the staging of art in audio texts. In: Hausendorf, Heiko / Müller, Markus (eds.): Language in Art Communication. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, pp. 380-400.
• Thurmair, M. (2015): Combinations with yes as elements of orality in constitutively written texts. In: Dalmas, Martine / Foschi Albert, Marina / Hepp, Marianne / Neuland, Eva (eds.): Texte im Spannungsfeld von medialen Spielräumen und Normorientierung. Munich: iudicium, pp. 215-231.
• Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2015): Discussing and mediating art: On linguistic strategies of audio guides. In: Dobstadt, Michael/Fandrych, Christian/Riedner, Renate (eds.): 'Linguistics and cultural studies: on their relationship from the perspective of German as a foreign and second language and other disciplines', Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, pp. 189-211.
• Thurmair, M. (2015 ): Reflections on a text-type-related grammar. In: Drumbl, Hans / Hornung, Antonie (eds.) IDT 2013 "Deutsch von innen. German from the outside. Volume 1: Main lectures, Bolzano - Bolzano University Press, pp. 365 - 382.
• Thurmair, M. (2014): Das Hörspiel im Rahmen einer Narrativen Didaktik, Brünner Hefte zu Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 7/2014, pp. 50-70 [delayed publication]
• Thurmair, M. (2014): University-based GFL training in Germany. In: "Nouveaux Cahiers d'Allemand" 32, 267-279.
• Thurmair, M. (2014): More than comparative: comparisons with more (and less). In: Lefevre, Michel (ed.): Linguistic aspects of comparison, metaphor and metonymy (Eurogermanistik series), Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
• Thurmair, M. (2013): The modal participle in German - a construction not to be neglected. GFL (German as a foreign language), 2/2013, pp. 92-111.
• Thurmair, M. (2013): Of hard-to-close gaps and extended competences. Attributes with participle and modal participle. In: Köpcke, Klaus-Michael / Ziegler, Arne (eds.): Schulgrammatik und Sprachunterricht im Wandel. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. S. 329-352.
• Thurmair, M. (2013): Spoken language and German as a foreign language. In: Bernt Ahrenholz / Ingelore Oomen-Welke (eds.): German as a foreign language. DTB, vol. 10. pp. 98-106.
• Thurmair, M. (2013): Sentence type and modal particles. In: Meibauer, Jörg / Steinbach, Markus / Altmann, Hans (eds.): Satztypen des Deutschen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. S. 627-651.
• Thurmair, M. (2011): Learning to understand grammar - with the help of text types. In: K. Köpcke / A. Ziegler (eds.): Grammatik - Lehren, Lernen, Verstehen. Tübingen. S. 411-431.
• Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2011): A plea for text-type-related language didactics. In: DaF 2, 2011. pp. 84-93.
• Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2010): Text type variations in the age of the Internet. In: Foschi, Albert/Hepp, M./Neuland, E./Dalmas, M. (eds.): Text und Stil im Kulturvergleich. Munich: Iudicium. S. 381-400.
• Thurmair, M. (2010): Text linguistics. In: Krumm, Hans-Jürgen/Fandrych, Christian/Hufeisen, Britta/Riemer, Claudia: Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. An international handbook (HSK 35/1), Berlin/New York. S. 275-284.
• Thurmair, M. (2010): Grammars. In: Krumm, Hans-Jürgen/Fandrych, Christian/Hufeisen, Britta/Riemer, Claudia: Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. An international handbook (HSK 35/1); Berlin/New York. S. 293-304.
• Thurmair, M. (2010): Text types. In: Krumm, Hans-Jürgen/Fandrych, Christian/Hufeisen, Britta/Riemer, Claudia: Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. An international handbook (HSK 35/1), Berlin/New York. S. 284-293.
• Thurmair, M. (2010): Morphology: word formation. In: Krumm, Hans-Jürgen / Fandrych, Christian / Hufeisen, Britta / Riemer, Claudia: Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. An international handbook (HSK 35/1); Berlin/New York. S. 227-236.
• Fandrych, C./Thurmair, M. (2010): Orientation in cultural space: travel guide texts and audio guides. In: Costa, M./Müller-Jacquier, B. (eds.): Deutschland als fremde Kultur: Vermittlungsverfahren in Touristenführungen. Munich, pp. 163-188.
• Thurmair, M. (2010): Grammatical knowledge and foreign language acquisition: who, what and why? In: Mechthild Habermann (ed.): Grammatik wozu? Duden, Topic German, Volume 11, pp. 357-370.
• Thurmair, M. (2010): various articles on text linguistics, syntax and word formation; in detail: Fugen-s, Kohärenz, Kohäsion, Kompositum, Nachfeld, Nominalale Klammer/Nominalklammer, Proform, Pronominalisierungsprobe, Satzadverb, Satzadverbial, Satzanalyse, Satzäquivalent, Satzart, Satzattribut, Satzglied, Satzklammer, Satzrahmen, Satzkopus, Satztyp, Satzverknüpfung, Satzwertiger Infinitiv, Satzwertiges Partizip, Textbaustein, Textgrammatik, Textsorte, Textualität, Vorfeld. In: Barkowski, Hans/Krumm, Hans-Jürgen (2010): Fachlexikon Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. A. Francke-Verlag: Tübingen and Basel (utb).
• Thurmair, M. (2010): Alternative considerations on the didactics of modal particles. In: German as a foreign language 47, 2010, H1, pp. 3-9.
• Thurmair, M. (forthcoming): Texts around the opera. To be published in K. D. Baumann/H. Kalverkämper (eds.): Fachtextsorten-in-Vernetzung. Ms 30 p.
• Thurmair, M. (2009): The Glasarche books as a text type in the spectrum of other visitor books: summit books, concern books, museum books. In: Heiko Hausendorf/Christiane Thim-Mabrey (eds.): An art object as an occasion for writing. The German-Czech journey of the 'Glasarche' as reflected in its visitors' books. Regensburg: edition vulpes, pp. 37-62.
• Thurmair, M. (2008): Mei, the Hans and the Brigitte! A formal and functional analysis of the Bavarian particle mei. In: E. Breindl/M. Thurmair (eds.): Insights from the edge. On the interaction of prosody, information structure, syntax and meaning. Contributions dedicated to Hans Altmann on his 65th birthday. German Language 3, 2008, pp. 95-113.
• Thurmair, M. (2008): Comparison(s) in text. From knowledge transfer to manipulation. Lyon Linguistique Allemande - LYLIA 15, pp. 1-18(langues.univ-lyon2.fr/1082-LYLIA-15.html).
• Thurmair, M. (2008): rüber, rein, rum & co: die r-Partikeln im System der verbalen Wortbildung. l. M. Eichinger/M. Meliss/M. J. Domínguez Vázquez (eds.): Wortbildung heute: Tendenzen und Kontraste in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Tübingen: Narr, pp. 311-336.
• Thurmair, M. (2007): Grammar(s) for all. German as a foreign language 44, pp. 233-238.
• Thurmair, M. (2007): Forest work in the forest darkness. The poetic fugue in German. In: A. Redder (ed.): Discourses and Texts. Festschrift for Konrad Ehlich on his 65th birthday. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, pp. 371-383.
• Thurmair, M. (2007): Maybe sometimes less is simply more? Another proposal for the didactics of modal particles. In: Hang Ferrer Mora/Herbert Josef Holzinger/Berta Raposo Fernández (eds.): Homenaje a Herta Schulze Schwarz, Universitat de València, pp. 207-227.
• Thurmair, M. (2007): "...ma Mozart non l'ho trovato!" What is not in our dictionaries. In: S. Reimann / K. Kessel: Wissenschaften im Kontakt. Fields of co-operation in German linguistics. (Festschrift for A. Greule) Tübingen: narr, 123-136.
• Thurmair, M. (2007): Her cat-green eyes gazed at the parquet panelled with fine beech wood. On the text type specificity of attributes. In: J. Buscha / R. Freudenberg-Findeisen (eds.): Feldergrammatik in der Diskussion. Functional grammar approach in language description and language mediation, pp. 165-183.
• Thurmair, M. (2006): The model and her prince. Congruence and text embedding in genus-sexus divergence. German Language 34, pp. 191-220.
• Thurmair, M. (2006): The valency concept in reference grammars: Grammars for German as a foreign language. In: Agel, Vilmos et al. (eds.): Dependency and Valence. An international handbook of contemporary research. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, pp. 1365-1378.
• Thurmair, M. (2005): Words in the text.Text-type-specific reference chains. In: Fix, Ulla / Lerchner, Gotthard / Schröder, Marianne / Wellmann, Hans: (eds.) Zwischen Lexikon und Text. Lexical stylistic and textlinguistic aspects. Leipzig: Verlag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, pp. 80-94.
• Thurmair, M. (2006): Textual aspects of mode and modality. In: Blühdorn, Hardarik / Breindl, Eva / Waßner, Ulrich (eds.): Text - Verstehen. Grammar and beyond. (Yearbook 2005 of the IdS) Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, pp. 71-89.
• Oppenrieder, W./Thurmair, M. (2005): Von bestgehütetsten Geheimnissen und meistgebrauchtesten Formen. Double superlative formations in contemporary German; Linguistics, 30. pp. 431-449.
• Thurmair, M. (2005): Comparison and consecutivity; Deutsche Sprache 33, pp. 1-14.
• Thurmair, M. (2005): "German, what a pleasantly difficult language!". Views on the German language. mitte. zeitschrift für interkulturelle begegnung, 4, p. 7ff.
• Thurmair, M. (2005): "But people speak quite differently today!"? Word order variations in the spoken language in GFL lessons; Fremdsprache Deutsch 32, pp. 42-48.
• Thurmair, M. (2004): Exercise grammars in the context of text-grammatical approaches. In: Kühn, P. (ed.): Übungsgrammatiken Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Linguistics analyses and didactic concepts. Regensburg: FaDaF, 79-102.
• Thurmair, M. (2004): Grammar is terrible - especially German. Or is it?; German as a Foreign Language 41, 182-185.
• Thurmair, M. (2004): Entwicklungstendenzen der deutschen Gegenwartssprache; mitte. zeitschrift für interkulturelle begegnung, 3, pp. 59-68
• Breindl, E./Thurmair, M. (2003): How many grammars can the learner tolerate? The importance of a "grammar of the spoken language" (not only) for German as a foreign language. German as a foreign language 40, pp. 87-93.
• Oppenrieder, W./Thurmair, M. (2003): Language identity in the context of multilingualism. In: Janich, N. / Thim-Mabrey, Chr. (eds.): Sprachidentität - Identität durch Sprache. Tübingen: Narr, pp. 39-60.
• Thurmair, M. (2003): Reference chains in the text: Pronominalisations, non-pronominalisations and renominalisations. In: Thurmair , M. / Willkop, E.-M. (eds.): In the beginning was the text. 10 Jahre "Textgrammatik der deutschen Sprache", Munich: iudicium, pp. 197-219.
• Thurmair, M. / Willkop, E.-M. (2003): The "Text grammar of the German language" for teaching German as a foreign language. Some suggestions. In: Wolff, Armin/Riedner, Ursula Renate (eds.): Grammatikvermittlung - Literaturreflexion - Wissenschaftspropädeutik - Qualifizierung für eine transnationale Kommunikation. Regensburg: FaDaF, pp. 250-286.
• Thurmair, M. (2002): Exercise grammar for the new DaF basic level certificate. German as a foreign language 39, pp. 114-115.
• Thurmair, M. (2002): Standard norms and deviations: Developmental tendencies under the influence of spoken language; Deutsch als Fremdsprache 39, pp. 3-8.
• Thurmair, M. (2002): Proper names as culture-specific symbols or: What you always wanted to know about proper names. ANGLOGERMÀNICA ONLINE 2002-1(www.uv.es/anglogermanica/2002-1/thurmair.htm).
• Thurmair, M. (2002): The Harald Juhnke of linguistics. Metaphorical uses of proper names; Deutsche Sprache 30, pp. 1-27.
• Oppenrieder, W./Thurmair, M. (2002): 'Doppelt genäht hält besser': Mehrfachmarkierung im Gegenwartsdeutschen. In: Trends in the development of contemporary German. Proceedings of the X. International Congress of Germanists Vienna 2000, vol. 2; ed. P. Wiesinger (vol. 2 supervised by H. Glück, W. Sauer, H. Wegener), Bern etc. S. 117-123.
• Thurmair, M. (2001): Text types in German as a foreign language lessons. In: Metodología y didactica del alemán como lengua extranjera en el contexto hispánico. Methodology and didactics of German as a foreign language in the Spanish context. Hang Ferrer Mora / Frank Kasper / Josefa Contreras Fernández (eds.). Valencia, Universidad de València, pp. 37-51.
• Thurmair, M. (2001): Text, text types, text types. In: German as a foreign language. An international handbook; ed. G. Helbig / L. Götze / G. Henrici / H.-J. Krumm. Berlin, New York, pp. 269-280.
• Thurmair, M. (2001): Particles under stress. On questions of meaning change through accentuation . Quaderns de Filologia. Estudis Lingüistics. Vol. VI: La pragmática de los conectores y las particúlas modales . Hang Ferrer / Salvador Pons (eds.), pp. 263-284.
• Thurmair, M. (2001): Pedagogy of grammar in the foreign language classroom, TEMPUS 3, 16f.
• Thurmair, M. (2001): The role of linguistics in the study of German as a foreign language; German as a Foreign Language (GFL), 2/2001, pp. 41-59(http://www.gfl-journal.de)
• Thurmair, M. (2000): Comparison in word formation. In: Praxis- und Integrationsfelder der Wortbildungsforschung. Ed. I. Barz / M. Schröder / U.Fix. Heidelberg, pp. 219-238.
• Thurmair, M. (2000): Empirical research in linguistics for German as a foreign language. In: Language - Culture - Politics. Ed. A. Wolff / H.Tanzer. Materialien Deutsch als Fremdsprache 53, Regensburg, pp. 254-270.
• Thurmair, M. (1999): With best wishes: Text linguistics of the superlative. In: Expressive grammar versus content grammar. Ed. R. Freudenberg-Findeisen, Munich, pp. 157-177.
• Thurmair, M. (1997): Not without my grammar! Proposals for a pedagogy of grammar in the teaching of German as a foreign language; Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 23, pp. 25-45.
• Thurmair, M. (1997): Narrative didactics and grammar teaching. Using the example of the textbook "Die Suche". In: DaF for the future. A future for DaF! Ed. A. Wolff/D.Blei. Materialien Deutsch als Fremdsprache 44, Regensburg, pp. 469-480.
• Thurmair, M. (1996): Verb word formation and verb bracket in German. In: Word formation - theory and application. Ed. A. Šimecková, M. Vachková, Prague, pp. 163-173.
• Thurmair, M. (1996): Text grammar - grammar in the text; DiE (Deutsch in Estland) 6, pp. 14-17.
• Thurmair, M. (1995): Double terminology in text or: hydrophobic is water-shy. In: Linguistics of scientific language. Ed. H.L. Kretzenbacher, H. Weinrich, Berlin - New York, pp. 247-280.
• Kretzenbacher, H.-L./Thurmair, M. (1995): "... certainly of interest, although..." Peer review as an evaluative text type of academic language. In: Linguistics of the language of science. Ed. H.L. Kretzenbacher, H.Weinrich, Berlin - New York, pp. 175-215.
• Fandrych, Chr./Thurmair, M. (1994): An interpretation model for nominal compound nouns: linguistics and didactic considerations. German as a foreign language 31, pp. 34-45.
• Eismann, V./Thurmair, M. (1994): An explanatory model for declension. [Part 2 of: How difficult should German grammar be?] Deutsch als Fremdsprache 31, pp. 152-156.
• Eismann, V./Thurmair, M. (1993): How difficult should German grammar be? [Part 1] An explanatory model for conjugation. German as a foreign language 30, pp. 238-245.
• Eismann, V./Thurmair, M. (1993): Literature for learners. A didactic concept for the initial teaching of German as a foreign language. Yearbook German as a Foreign Language 19, pp. 373-389.
• Thurmair, M. (1993): Form of utterance or function of utterance? On the conditions for the occurrence of modal particles. German Language 21, pp. 22-43.
• Kretzenbacher, H.-L./Thurmair, M. (1992): Text comparison as a basis for describing a scientific text type: the peer review. In: Contrastive specialised language research. Ed. K.-D. Baumann, H. Kalverkämper, Tübingen, pp. 135-146.
• Breindl, E./Thurmair, M. (1992): Der Fürstbischof im Hosenrock. A study on the nominal copulative compounds of German. German Language 20, pp. 32-61.
• Thurmair, M. (1991): On the use of the modal particle denn in interrogative sentences. A corpus-based study. In: Betriebslinguistik und Linguistikbetrieb. Proceedings of the 24th Ling. Coll. Bremen, Sept. 1989, ed. E. Klein, F. Pouradier Duteil, K.H. Wagner, Tübingen. S. 377-387.
• Thurmair, M. (1991): Waiting for the verb. The memory relevance of the verb bracket in German. Yearbook German as a Foreign Language 17, pp. 174-202.
• Thurmair, M. (1991): Text linguistics and grammar teaching. Fremdsprachen lehren und lernen (FLuL) 20, pp. 84-103.
• Thurmair, M. (1991): "Why don't you just combine modal particles!": Combinatorial regularities for modal particles and their use as an instrument of analysis. Multilingua 10-1/2, pp. 19-42.
• Thurmair, M. (1990): Textgrammatik der deutschen Sprache, Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache 16, pp. 267-275.
• Oppenrieder, W./Thurmair, M. (1989): Kategorie und Funktion einer Partikel. Or: What actually is 'eigentlich' EIGENTLICH? German Language 17, pp. 26-39.

Textbooks and didactic publications

• Thurmair, M. (2000): Langenscheidt's Short German Grammar. Completely revised. Berlin etc.
• Thurmair, M. (2000): Langenscheidt's German verb tables. Completely revised. Berlin etc.
• Thurmair, M. (2000): Langenscheidt's German grammar tables. Completely revised. Berlin etc.
• Eismann, V./Schneider, P./Thurmair, M. et al. (1997): "Die Suche". Das andere Lehrwerk für Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Lehrerhandbuch 2, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Schneider, P./Thurmair, M. et al. (1997): "Die Suche". Das andere Lehrwerk für Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Glossar German - English 2, Glossaire Allemand - Français 2, Glossario Tedesco - Italiano 2, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Schneider, P./Thurmair, M. et al. (1996): "Die Suche". The other textbook for German as a foreign language, Textbook 2, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Schneider, P./Thurmair, M. et al. (1996): "Die Suche". The other textbook for German as a foreign language, workbook 2, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Schneider, P./Thurmair, M. et al. (1996): "Die Suche". A radio play with speaking exercises. Cassettes 2 A/1 and 2 A/2, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Schneider, P./Thurmair, M. et al. (1996): "Die Suche". Audio texts for regional studies. Cassette 2B, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Enzensberger, H.M. /Thurmair, M. et al. (1995): "Die Suche". The other textbook for German as a foreign language, Teacher's Manual 1, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Enzensberger, H.M. /Thurmair, M. et al. (1995): "Die Suche". Das andere Lehrwerk für Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Glossar German - English 1, Glossaire Allemand - Français 1, Glossario Tedesco - Italiano 1, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Enzensberger, H.M. /Thurmair, M. et al. (1994): "Die Suche". The other textbook for German as a foreign language, workbook 1, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Enzensberger, H.M. /Thurmair, M. et al. (1994: "Die Suche". Exercises in regional studies and phonetics. Cassette 1 B, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Enzensberger, H.M. /Thurmair, M. et al. (1993): "Die Suche". The other textbook for German as a foreign language. Textbook 1, Munich.
• Eismann, V./Enzensberger, H.M. /Thurmair, M. et al. (1993): "Die Suche". A radio play with speaking exercises. Cassettes 1A/1 and 1A/2, Munich.

Courses on a wide range of Daf-related topics, in particular language-related topics such as language acquisition and language learning, vocabulary / vocabulary teaching, grammar / grammar teaching, text / text types, spoken language, variety linguistics, language (en) policy, specialised, professional and scientific languages, development trends in the German language, phonetics and orthography, etc.